Rathbones opens access to two in-house multi-manager products

Rathbone Unit Trust Management has made two multi-asset funds of funds available directly to external investors for the first time.

The Rathbone Total Return and Strategic Growth portfolios are run by David Coombs, who established Barings' absolute return investment process during the 1990s before managing its multi-asset funds. Rathbones' Nurs products are suitable for Sipps and Isas and are designed to be core investment strategies. Previously they were available to the group's own private clients, and to intermediaries willing to pay for a unitised offering Rathbones launched in 2009. Coombs says: "Clients want targeted, inflation-plus returns, and it seems to me that these products are appropriate for priva...